There
is less than
one week left
to submit your
talk proposal
for Eclipse
Converge!ÂSubmissionsÂwill be open until December
12, 2016.
Additionally,ÂregistrationÂfor Eclipse Converge is now open!
Converge
attendees
receive a
discount when
adding Devoxx
US to their
Eclipse
Converge
registration.
Get all the
details on theÂRegistration
page.

For
those who may
not know,
Eclipse
Converge is a
new event for
the Eclipse
community. It
is a one-day
summit
dedicated
exclusively to
Eclipse
technologies,
with the goal
of allowing
our North
American
developer
community to
meet and share
ideas.

We are
actively
seeking bids
on 10 new FEEP
Development
Efforts, along
with 5
outstanding
Development
Efforts that
have not yet
been bid. The
objective is
to have this
work completed
in the 1st
quarter of
2017.

Please
see the list
of development
effortsÂhere,
and submit
your bids
before
December 23,
2016.

Over 170ÂspeakersÂhave been accepted for Devoxx US,
and the
program
committee is
in the last
stages of
finalizing the
program. You
can check out
the current
line-up of
speakers by
viewing the
Devoxx USÂSchedule.

Also,
it is time to
register for
Devoxx US and
Eclipse
Converge -
please see
theÂÂregistration pageÂfor
more details.Â

Thanks
to the
community
members who
are serving on
the program
committee with
Tracy Miranda
as chair. Each
of them have
committed to
serving as a
member of the
core team that
chooses the
conference
program. Meet
theÂcommittee.

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FOUNDATION UPDATES

With over 600 attendees and 39 sponsors, this yearâs EclipseCon Europe, again exceeded all expectations. Some highlights included the keynote by Stephen Carver on management practices at NASA, an ever-growing IoT Playground for tinkerers, expert tracks on Quality and Testing, IoT and Eclipse and of course, fun stuff.

We recorded many of the keynotes and talks and will be posting these to the Eclipse YouTube channel in the coming weeks.

We thank all those who contributed to the success of the event, especially our program committee, our speakers and our sponsors. The feedback from the event has been great, and the success is directly attributed to our members and committers who continually contribute in such an impactful way.

Eclipse IoT working group is pleased to announce the third edition of the Open IoT Challenge. The Challenge encourages IoT enthusiasts and developers to build innovative solutions for the Internet of Things using open standards and open source technology. The previous edition yielded many great solutions!

Once again, the top 10 submissions will be supported with hardware development kits and the final winners will receive special prizes. Thank you to bitreactive, Bosch Software Innovations, Eurotech, MicroEJ, and Red Hat for sponsoring the challenge.

Participants are required to submit a proposal for their solution by November 25, 2016. All participants will then have until the end of February to build their IoT solutions. The winners will be announced the beginning of March.

The FEEP program, created earlier this year, has committed to allocate all funds donated through the Friends of Eclipse initiative to making improvements to the Eclipse IDE/Platform. This program is governed and managed by the EMO.

We are still working on a 2017 program plan, with the hopes of posting new desired development efforts in late November. As input to this plan, we are seeking suggestions of enhancements that will have an impact on the upcoming Oxygen release. To gather priorities, we have created a mailing list where Eclipse members can register and submit propositions for new work items.

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The Eclipse Foundation recently rolled out the new Eclipse Contributor Agreement (ECA). If you already have an active Eclipse CLA, you donât have to do anything; your CLA remains active and you can convert to the new agreement when it expires after three years. The new ECA has been introduced to make the terms clearer, and more consistent with the practices of the broader free and open source community.

In addition, the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors recently approved the new IP Policy that was discussed in late June. By the end of this year, we will have two IP due diligence options. Eclipse Foundation projects may then choose the most appropriate one for their project. If you want to learn more, click here. To join in the conversation, check out bug 496959.

The Eclipse Foundation continues to enhance its policies and procedures to make it a better place for developers to host their projects. We hope everyone agrees that these are all steps in the right direction.

Since 2001, Eclipseâs open source community and technology have benefited millions of users around the world each and every day.

During the month of September, the Eclipse Foundation will be running a fundraising campaign. The goal is to receive 3,000 donations from the Eclipse Community. All donations received will be used to improve the Eclipse Platform.

We are making it easy to donate by adding a banner at the top of the eclipse.org website. Donations can be made directly from the banner or donate page via PayPal or Bitcoin. Support our wonderful open source community by donating today.

Submissions are now open for Devoxx US 2017. We encourage our Eclipse community members to propose talks for this exciting developer-oriented conference, being brought to the US for the first time by the Eclipse Foundation. Devoxx US is March 21 - 23, 2017, in San Jose, California.

Coinciding with Devoxx US is Eclipse Converge, a one-day summit dedicated exclusively to Eclipse technologies, planned for Monday, March 20, 2017. The Call for Papers for Eclipse Converge will open in November.

As a bonus for our community, speakers at either Devoxx US 2017 or Eclipse Converge will be given full passes for a Converge + Devoxx Combo Pass.

The openPASS Working Group (openPASS WG) will foster and support an open and innovative ecosystem providing tools, systems, and adapters for standardized, openly-available and vendor-neutral platform for simulation of traffic scenarios.

The group was founded on August 4, 2016 with sim@openpass as its initial project.

The Friends of Eclipse Enhancement Program (FEEP) uses the funds donated to the Eclipse Foundation to make direct improvements and enhancements to the Eclipse IDE/Platform. Thus far, the funds have been used to improve the AutoSave feature, fix issues with toolbars, improve start-up time, make improvements to the dark theme, and to triage the significant backlog of Platform UI bugs.

The list of suggested development efforts can be found here. You need to log in using your Eclipse account to view these. Further details regarding the proposal process and dates will be provided via the ide-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx mailing list later this month.

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]]>Tue, 06 Sep 2016 19:19:17 GMThttp://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse.org-member-marketing/msg00546.htmlstephanie.swart@xxxxxxx (Eclipse Member Newsletter)Eclipse Member Newsletter, August 2016 editionhttp://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse.org-member-marketing/msg00545.html
To view this newsletter online, go to https://www.eclipse.org/community/newsletter/2016/2016August.html. August 2, 2016Foundation Updates in This IssueEclipseCon Europe Program Is Ready!Upgrade to NeonSubscribe to the Eclipse Monthly NewsletterRecent Proje...

Early registration prices won't last forever, so register now for the best price. (We expect the main hotel to sell out, so book your room soon.)

The keynote talks are a special highlight this year, from an analysis of leadership failures behind the Space Shuttle disasters, to an Eclipse rock star reflecting on the past and future of IDEs, to a look inside the hugely important GEO600 gravitational wave detector project.

Be sure you have the latest Eclipse version! Neon, the 2016 Eclipse release, is ready for download! Check out the cool Neon page for the package highlights, included projects, and features. (Neon may just bring more light to your life.)

Did you know? We have a monthly Eclipse Newsletter featuring great articles about Eclipse projects. Read the latest edition and set up your subscrption here. Email newsletter@xxxxxxxxxxx if you have an article idea or if you'd like to sponsor an upcoming newsletter.

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The Eclipse Board of Directors is planning a major change to the Foundation's intellectual property process. This will be the most significant change since the inception of the Eclipse Foundation 12 years ago. Read Executive Director Mike Milinkovich's blog post for the details.

The week starts off with anUnconference on Monday, October 24, followed by three days of tutorials, sessions, activities, and networking on October 25 - 27. Registration is open, so sign up now for the lowest price. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Eclipse Neon will be released on June 22, 2016. Highlights include new tools for _javascript_ developers, automated error reporting, improved support for Docker tooling, and new projects (EGerrit, Eclipse Tools for Cloud Foundry, and more).

We are pleased to announce that the Eclipse Foundation will be organizing a new developer oriented conference called Devoxx US. The event will be March 21-23, 2017 at the San Jose Convention Center.

We see this as an opportunity to invigorate our conference program in North America, and as a way to showcase Eclipse technologies on a broader stage. We encourage the community to submit technical talks when the call for papers opens in September 2016.

We also encouragehope our members to sponsor this event, since it provides a significant opportunity to meet with the broader developer community in North America. For more information, contact us atsponsors@xxxxxxxxx.

Submit your EclipseCon Europe talk by the early-bird deadline on June 30, and your talk could be chosen before you even start your summer holiday! The final submission deadline is July 18.

The conference is October 25 - 27, and the week starts off with an Eclipse Unconference on Monday, October 24. The lowest registration prices are happening right now. We look forward to seeing you in Ludwigsburg!

The next Eclipse Foundation Members meeting is on Thursday, June 23, at 11:30 ET. The meeting will take place using Google Hangout and be live streamed to YouTube. More information will be published on the members-committers email list.

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]]>Fri, 10 Jun 2016 09:00:59 GMThttp://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse.org-member-marketing/msg00543.htmlanne.jacko@xxxxxxx (Anne Jacko)Announcing Devoxx US and Eclipse Convergehttp://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse.org-member-marketing/msg00542.html
Dear All. I am very pleased to announce the Eclipse Foundation will be organizing a new developer oriented conference called Devoxx US. The first such event, DEVOXX US 2017, will be held March 21-23, 2017 at the San Jose Convention Center. As many of you ...

Dear All.

I am very pleased to announce the Eclipse Foundation will be organizing a new developer oriented conference called Devoxx US.

The first such event, DEVOXX US 2017, will be held March 21-23, 2017 at the San Jose Convention Center.

As many of you know, Devoxx is a very popular European developer conference that attracts over 11,000 attendees each year across the existing family of conferences. ÂWe were invited by Stephan Janssen, the founder of Devoxx, to bring the Devoxx conference model to North America, and apply our experience in operating successful events to build a strong Devoxx US presence in North America. For more information about Devoxx, see www.devoxx.com. Â

The Eclipse Foundation sees this opportunity as a means to invigorate our conference program in North America, and also as a way to showcase Eclipse technologies on a broader stage. Â

DEVOXX US 2017 will include a wide variety of topics, and and we encourage all in our community to consider submitting technical talks to the call for papers, which is scheduled for September of this year. ÂWe know our technologies are best in class in many areas, and having the opportunity to highlight our advances to the Devoxx audience is a tremendous opportunity.

We are also creating a new Eclipse-based event weâre calling Eclipse Converge, to be held just prior to DEVOXX US 2017 on March 20, 2017. ÂEclipse Converge will be a one day summit dedicated exclusively to Eclipse technologies, and will allow our North American developer community to meet and share ideas among themselves. Â

By combining Eclipse Converge with DEVOXX US, we will enable our community to first have the opportunity to work closely with each other on ideas dedicated exclusively to Eclipse technologies, and then to immediately engage in DEVOXX and to share our ideas with the broader developer community. ÂThese combined events are a replacement for the traditional EclipseCon NA that we have operated for a number of years.

You can find out more about DEVOXX US at www.devoxx.us, or follow us on Twitter at @DevoxxUS. ÂWe will announce more details about Eclipse Converge over the next few weeks, including how to register for both events combined. ÂIâve also provided a few more details below.

We encourage our member companies to sponsor these combined events. ÂWe believe the opportunity to meet with the broader developer community is significant. We expect this conference to be the premiere event in North America for developers, and we are excited to be playing a central role in organizing the program and the event. ÂYou can find out more about sponsorship by emailing sponsors@xxxxxxxxx.

I look forward to hearing from you regarding this new initiative, and hope to see you in San Jose next March!

Devoxx normally has great community involvement - will that be the same here?

Definitely. ÂWe are already working directly with the Silicon Valley JUG and the San Francisco JUG in organizing local events and activities, including a DEVOXX4KIDS and a Devoxx Community Day. ÂWe will be reaching out to JUGs and UGs across North America to participate. ÂIf youâd like to get involved, please reach out.

Is DEVOXX US only about Eclipse technologies?

No, it is a developer conference covering a wide range of topics. ÂSee the website for more details, and watch for the Call for Papers in September.

The existing Devoxx conferences generally do not cover much about Eclipse technologies - will DEVOXX US have Eclipse technologies?

Eclipse technologies will definitely be covered at DEVOXX US. ÂHow extensively they are covered will be governed by the quality of talks proposed by our community members, so we urge people to submit talks to the call for papers.

What about EclipseCon North America?

We will not hold EclipseCon North America in 2017, but instead will have the combined events of Eclipse Converge and DEVOXX US. ÂWe believe these two events together will enable all members of the Eclipse community to come together and share new ideas, not just among other Eclipse community members, but also with some of the best and brightest in our industry.

Has the program committee been established?

Stephan Janssen, the founder of Devoxx, will be the program chair for DEVOXX US 2017. ÂThere are a number of people already selected for the program committee, but there are still open spots to be filled. ÂIf youâre interested in joining, contact either Paul White or Stephan Janssen directly. ÂEclipse Converge will have its own program committee, and the members of that committee will be chosen in September. Â

What is the price?

In keeping with the Devoxx approach, we have worked to keep the price as low as possible. ÂThe price for the 3 days of DEVOXX US 2017 is $995. ÂThe price for Eclipse Converge and DEVOXX US 2017 combined is $1150. Â

How can I get my company involved as a sponsor?

You can reach out to Perri Lavergne or Paul White directly, or simply send an email to sponsors@xxxxxxxxx. Â

Submissions open on May 16 for EclipseCon Europe / OSGi Community Event 2016, so it's a good time to think about your talk, and plan to send it in before you start your summer holiday. Make sure you have marked your calendar to be in Ludwigsburg on October 25 - 27, 2016.

If your company is considering a sponsorship, don't delay! The best booth locations are going fast.

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EclipseCon France registration is open, the submissions are all in, and the program committee will be announcing the full schedule in a couple of weeks. Early June is a beautiful time in Toulouse, so make your plans now.

The conference now includes a full day of workshops on Tuesday (7 June), two days of keynotes and sessions on Wednesday and Thursday (8-9 June), and an Unconference on Friday (10 June).

Community members recently elected these Committer and Sustaining Member representatives to the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors. Thanks to all the canidates, and to everyone who participated in the election.

The Neon Simultaneous Release will arrive in June, so it's time to plan a DemoCamp to mark the annual event. Check the DemoCamp wiki to see what has been organized already, and think about attending â or organizing â an event in your location.

PolarSys RoverThe PolarSys Rover Project provides educational material including models, code and documentation to demonstrate the usage of PolarSys solutions for the architecture, design, development and test of a simple rover system inspired by both Mars exploration and crisis management missions. More...

OSBPThe Open Standard Business Platform (OSBP) comprises a model-based software factory composed of extensible frameworks, tools and runtime environments for building, deploying and managing business applications across their lifecycles.More...

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The annual face-to-face Eclipse Foundation Member Meeting happens Monday, March 7, on the first day of EclipseCon North America. The meeting begins at 2pm in Reston ABC, and the agenda is availablehere. Learn what's going on with current Eclipse projects, the FEEP program, the working groups, and more.

Eclipse Foundation and select member companies participated in theEmbedded World Conference (EWC) in NÃremberg, Germany. With about 900 exhibiting companies and 2,5000 visitors, EWC is one of the conferences in the world focusing on embedded technologies and IoT.

In support of the commitment to use Friends of Eclipse funds for development, the Eclipse Foundation has hired MikaÃl Barbero as a senior Eclipse Platform developer to drive enhancements and improvements to the Eclipse IDE/Platform.

MikaÃl will provide technical leadership to the Eclipse FEEP committee in identifying priorities and working closely with the contractors engaged by the Foundation to carry out development tasks.

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